Background
Stone, Marshall Harvey was born on April 8, 1903 in New York City. Son of Harlan Fiske and Agnes (Harvey).
Stone, Marshall Harvey was born on April 8, 1903 in New York City. Son of Harlan Fiske and Agnes (Harvey).
AB, Harvard University, 1922. AM, Harvard University, 1924. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1926.
Postgraduate, University Paris, France, 1925. Doctor of Science, Kenyon College, 1939. Doctorate (honorary), Universidad de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, 1943.
Doctorate (honorary), Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1947. Doctorate (honorary), University Athens, 1954. Doctor of Science (honorary), Amherst College, 1954.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Colby College, 1959. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1966.
Part-time instructor Harvard University, 1922-1923, instructor, 1927-1928, assistant professor mathematics, 1928-1931, associate professor, 1933-1937. Instructor Columbia University, 1925-1927. Associate professor mathematics Yale University, 1931-1933.
Acting associate professor Stanford University, summer 1933. Professor mathematics Harvard University, 1937-1946, chairman department, 1942. Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service professor mathematics University Chicago, 1946-1968, chairman department mathematics, 1946-1952, member committee on social thought, from 1962, professor emeritus, 1968.
George David Birkhoff professor mathematics University Massachusetts, 1968-1973, professor, 1973-1980, emeritus, 1980-1989. Walker Ames lecturer University Washington, summer 1942. Visiting lecturer Facultad de Ingenieria, University Buenos Aires, 1943, University do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 1947, Tata Institute Fundamental Research, Bombay, 1949-1950, American Mathematics Society, 1951-1952, College de France, 1953, Australian Mathematics Society, 1959, Middle East Technology University, Ankara, 1963, Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 1964, University Geneva, 1964.
1st Ramanujan visiting professor Institute Math Sciences Madras, 1963. Visiting professor Research Institute of Mathematics Sciences, Kyoto, Japan, 1965. Visiting scientist C.E.R.N., Geneva, 1966.
Fulbright lecturer Australian National University, 1967. Honorary professor Madurai Kamaraj University, South India, from 1967. Honorary Distinguished professor Teachers College, Columbia University, from 1978.
Visiting lecturer University Campinas (Brazil), 1979, University Técnica, Santiago, Chile, 1979, Academia Sinica, China, 1979. Fulbright travel grantee, visiting professor Tata Institute, Bombay, 1980-1981. Consultant to United States Navy Department Bureau Ordnance and Office Vice Chief Naval Operations, 1942-1943.
Civil Service employee United States War Department office chief of staff Management Information System, special branch, 1944-1945. With overseas service United States War Department office chief of staff, China, European Theatre of Operations. Consultant State Department, India, 1961, National Science Foundation-Agency for International Development, India, 1968-1969, 73.
Visiting professor University Islamabad, Pakistan, 1968-1969. President Inter-American Committee Mathematics Education, 1961-1972, honorary president, 1972. Vice chairman division mathematics National Research Council, 1951-1952.
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President International Mathematics Union, 1952-1954, International Commission on Mathematics Instruction, 1959-1962, Inter Union Committee Teaching Science, International Council of Scientific Unions, 1962-1965. Member American Mathematics Society (president 1943-1944), National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Union Mathematica Argentine (honorary), Indian Mathematics Society (honorary), Centre International de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees (administrative and science councils), Academy Brasileira de Ciencias, Lund (Sweden) Physiographical Society, Bologna (Italy) Academy, Explorers Club (New York City).
Son of; married Emmy Portman, June 15, 1927 (divorced July 1962). Children: Doris Portman, Cynthia Harvey, Phoebe Goodrich. Married Raviojla Perendija Kostic, August 8, 1962.
1 child, Svetlana Kostic-Stone.